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Niger’s president Mahamadou Issoufou has announced the closure of the country’s land borders, Niamey airport and its educational institutions to prevent the entry into the territory of coronavirus. There are currently no confirmed cases of the virus in the landlocked African country. The measures follow a trend where African countries are issuing directives to combat the virus. President Issoufou said… Read More

Cameroon on Tuesday announced the closure of its air, land and sea borders in response to the new coronavirus pandemic. High schools, colleges and universities have been closed as a preventative measure to curb the spread of the disease. Announcing the measures, Prime Minister Joseph Dion Ngute said: “All passenger flights from abroad will be suspended except for cargo flights… Read More

Faced with the new coronavirus pandemic, the French embassy in Tunis is setting up a crisis unit to ensure the repatriation of stranded French tourists. Many tourists are stranded in the country following the closure of air, land and sea borders to curb the spread of the disease which has claimed thousands of lives globally. Olivier Poivre d’Arvor, the French… Read More

The coronavirus epidemic continues to disrupt life across the world. The disruption is much lesser in African countries that have recorded cases as compared to for example Italy where the entire country is almost in a lockdown. The impact on gatherings is an area that most African governments have moved to control. From the playing of football matches behind closed… Read More

The coronavirus was confirmed in the Chinese city of Wuhan in late December 2019. Cases have since been confirmed in over scores of countries across the globe. The World Health Organisation, WHO, has since declared it a pandemic. WHO chief Tedros Ghebereyesus said whiles China had a robust health system to detect and control, his outfit remained concerned about the… Read More

As part of our news analysis slot on Africanews, we will be updating a media watch page that deals with major issues of media ongoings across the continent. It will cut across happenings in mainstream and across social media with also a special eye for fake news. Facebook to help combat coronavirus fake news in Nigeria Kenya arrests coronavirus fake… Read More

Business dips in Windhoek following Namibia’s first two coronavirus cases on Saturday. Small scale enterprises are lamenting of poor sales as people desert public places as precautionary measures. “Personally for my job, it went down a bit, because the clients now don’t want to be in public places. I work in a salon and nobody wants to show up because… Read More

Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa has declared the coronavirus pandemic as a national disaster. He said this could help the government mobilize resources. Mnangagwa also cancelled Independence Day celebrations and international sporting events to curb spread of COVID-19. “The government has postponed the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF), all previously scheduled national independence celebrations and international sporting events on hold until… Read More

The Championship of African Nations, CHAN 2020 scheduled to start in Cameroon next month will no longer take place due to the coronavirus pandemic. The 04 to 25 April tournament was postponed following an extraordinary session of the CHAN Organizing Committee meeting in Cameroon on Tuesday. The committee cited amongst others, the confinement of population in many countries, restrictions imposed… Read More

The Moroccan tourist city of Marrakech has almost become an empty city as the numbers of tourists go down following closure of borders over COVID-19 fears.But this means those already in the country cannot go back home. “From a health point of view, yes, I think I’m safer in Morocco. Morocco has made good decisions, such as closing the borders… Read More